The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-11
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SERMONS DOWN AT MOuNDsvTLLl
Yesterday" Eterpal Life" and Demand 70
tho Release of Bnrubbns- Other Inter.
| esting 4seryices-The MsetinE Closes :
this Evening IS. 5. Congress.
MoUEDivILLR CAap MEETING, Angus
lO.-Morning service was conducted b,
Rev. Spencer King and was as usual, YER,
interesting, the great warming up Of las
night being visible even in the counter
ances Of those who spoke. 4
AT 1880 a. NJ. Rev. Sam Small preached
from the following words: "For the Liz
was manifested, for We have ssen it and
bear Witness" &C., sand this Is the wit
nesa Of God which he hath testified he
Saw" "He that hath tho Son hath
eternal life." W. Z, "a
How many persons In this audience 10.
day who have had their sins pardoned
absolutely know that they have eternal
life2 You would be surprised II there
were true poll taken, how fow would
stand up and say, ~ am saved.n A good
many would say, II hope II hold out ali
right l will BIO saved !" but 1t Is the Chris.
tian's privilege all over the world. hoih
In Christian and heather lands, 10 know
they have eternal life. Human resolution
Will never Have any man. Heccannot
even control himself in riyhteouspess
here; how then Is he 10 control lila i'm.
mortal destiny. tried to resolute nv.
sell into decency many a time, but Il
failed every time. might point ont n
man In whom you had the moat nm.
bounded confidence, and tell you 10 fol.
ioW him, but you would say, ~ cannot
follow him, he may fail" The devil has
more sense and knowledge and wisdom
than nii the philosophers. He eau quote
poetry or Scripture and can always heat
you in an argument. Infdelty NAV do
fora doctrine, but 1t won't do far a fact,
human philosophy cannot be depended
upon. Plato tells me great MANY i'm.
portant facts, but he cannot explain the
mysteries Of God. Paul said beware nj
these. Spencer speaks OF God as tho mn.
known and uaknowable. Which are
you going to believe, Paul or Spencer
In Rome they had thirty thousand coda
and you could go into their temples and
pick out one to suit you. Each usually
picked one to suit his own nature. Panl
says. "Whom ys ignorantly worshin
Him declare unto you" - ~ r.
a fellow comes along and says, 81 don't
believe in Adam" Well, God put him in
the Garden OF Eden and endowed him
with all reasoning faculties. You cannot
make a man believe that be originated
from a tadpole. A man wants a solid
foundation under him. He wants to know
that he was made by the hand OF God. a
man. These things are written that van
may know that you are immortal.
What is eternal Lille? You will have to
fall back upon what John says. BE wants
you to know that you have eternal Iife.
He says, "God has given us eternal life
through bis Son." This takes us directlv
to Christ, and puts US to studying his
character and attributes. weuid he
willing to do almost anything if / couId
get every Christian in this audience tn
study and understand the lie Of Christ,
We know that all the fullnees OF God ex.
ists in Him. In His character and life. he
10 the exact counterpart OF the Father.
Take love in Jesus Christ. It is the sane
love that is in the Father; and az love
cannot die out OF the heart Of the Father
it is eternal, and it.can no more die ont
OF Christ. Mercy is IS eternal in Cbriat
as It is in God. Take goodness-it WAS re-
produced in Chriet in all its perfection.
Take justice-it is the same, undetiled. nm.
diminished, ss in the heart of God.
Whenever ! know the love of God ia
shesd abroad in my heart, | know have
that much Of eternal life in nv heert,
When hatred, malice, anger and pride and
all evil are taken out OF my heart and 7
absorb into my heart the same mercy tina,
was in Jesus Christ, have two elements
OF eternal life in my heart, II I dischsroe
all my obligations towsrd my fellow men
spontaneously and freely, have the sans
goodneesa az Is eternalin Christ, and etornal
men. II have the same Justice toward
God and man, l have four elements that
were in Christ. II had truth like he
bad it, 1t is eternal in mo. II have tina
same purity, II have that freedom from
Him which comes with regeneration than
! have the same purity that was in Christ.
SO when absorb them all, when the old
Adam ia taken out OF my nature.
THE cHILDREN's MEErISGI
under the leadership OF Rev. G. w,
Grimes was more than usually interesting.
Rev. DR.. Blsisdell, Principal Of the Wheel.
ing Female College, talked pleasantly.
Mrs. Calvert, oil Wsynesburg, Pa, read a
letter from Mrs. Sumner Stone (nae Kate
Elson), which was very much reliahcd by
the children. There was a very large at
tendance. $50 ~
Ats o'clock tho singing was done by the
c!ass Of little ones that Mr.. Excel has been
teac ,iug during the meeting, assisted by
the choir, and was one of the yery hest
features Of the meeting. The services
proper opened by singing "Are Won
Washed ~ Rev. G. r. Copeland led in
prayer. Rev. George E. Hite, in introduc.
ing MIR. Small, made some very touching
remarks az to his Torth. Mr.. Excel eans
"'Pis Dividing the World" in his yery
best style. MIR. Small preached from the
words, "But he delivered Jesus to their
viii. q. t4.19 q 81 81
When JeHus Ohriet came to the earth Il
meant the division of the world, and
when He hung on the cross it meant the
permanent division, the right from the
wrong. Wherever the ,crosa OF Christ is
preached it divides the people. 1t divides
the world to-day into two moral hemis.
phcres. 1t divides those who believe in
Christ from thoae who serve under Sstan's
banner. Pilato expected the crowd to
choose Christ. We think we would have
chosen Him: Had We been there we
would have dono Just as the mob did. Pi.
late yielded and said, "now take Him and
do as you will with Him" Thew chose
to take Him and cruelty Him. Wonder.
full tragedy! But 1t has been enacted all
down the ages since that day. It has been
done on this camp ground s!sce this meet
ing; 1t will be done today. Christ will
be rejected.
JERUSALEM AND WHEELING,